scale of penalties

This means a disciplinary process and a scale of penalties that can be imposed.

The ascending scale of penalties described above is also used for all other prohibited techniques and actions.

Something very close to a miniature police state had been created aboard the ship, with a harsh scale of penalties for various crimes.

Players would face a graduated scale of penalties if mandatory random testing went into effect, with first-time offenders being placed in a treatment program.

There is one scale of penalties for private companies and another, higher scale for PLCs.

The second thing to note is that each offence carries its own scale of penalties, and penalties for one offence are not added on to penalties imposed for a different offence.

It seems equally likely that, even without adopting the Scandinavian scheme involving a different scale of penalties for marital rape, sentencing in such cases would tend to be more lenient than in other rape cases.

Gernet writes: "The family relationships supposed to exist in the ideal family were the foundation of the entire moral outlook, and even the law, in its total structure and its scale of penalties, was nothing but a codified expression of them."

Although there is no such thing as a 'correct' sentence, there is a notional scale of penalties known as the tariff, which is based on the 'normal range'that has been developed by courts in the past, under the guidance of the Court of Appeal.